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iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF (QTOP) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on QTOP

What this diary said about iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
Global ETFs 600.79 shares · average entry $29.25 — +34.8%

Model books as of 25 Sept 2026; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

Our record on QTOP

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF, with the outcome where it is known.

Charts from the desk on QTOP

The charts this diary drew or picked on iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF, as published — each dated and linked to the piece that explains it.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for QTOP, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Closelooknet ETF read

Our dispersion engine · constituent internals

confirming up · Broad advance - breadth is rising with price. — last 21 sessions: price +7.3%, advance/decline +0.61 per name

WindowFundMedian holdingBeat / lag the fundUp / downDispersion
Day +0.3% +0.4% 19 / 12 24 / 7 1.8pp
Week +3.6% +3.0% 14 / 17 23 / 8 5.0pp
Month +7.3% +1.9% 8 / 23 20 / 11 12.2pp
Year to date +23.5% +10.6% 12 / 19 24 / 7 72.5pp

Drove the month INTC +39.4% · AMD +31.1% · META +30.5% · AAPL +8.8% · NVDA +7.3%

Dragged the month NFLX −12.7% · AMZN −4.1% · CSCO −5.0% · PEP −8.6% · COST −3.5%

Computed by the Closelooknet dispersion engine from the full constituent roster (31 names, 100% of weight) · as of 2026-09-25 · full dispersion read → · methodology · descriptive, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 5 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “SOXX breaks its floor on FOMC day — the sell-off spares only the testers” (2026-07-29)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where QTOP appears in the diary — 5 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

  • Software vs Semis — The Tape Split in TwoWeekly Signal · 5 Jul 2026The Nasdaq cuts we track sharpen it: Cut Week Top 20 US (TOPT) +2.6% N100 ex-Tech (QQXT) +2.2% N100 equal weight (QQQE) +1.2% N100 Top 30 (QTOP) +1.0% N100 Tech (QTEC) −0.4% Read it bottom-up: inside the Nasdaq-100, everything that is not…
  • US Equities — Don’t Buy U.S. Stocks · Closelooknet HeresyHeresy · 8 May 2026Two ETFs that take the Nasdaq-100 logic and concentrate it further: iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks (QTOP) — owns only the 30 largest names inside the Nasdaq-100.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Region breadth …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Region breadth US: 2 of 11 sectors up on the month · leading Technology +7.5%, lagging Utilities −8.5%The Sector Engine column for the market this fund tracks — how many of its eleven sectors are rising and which ones lead, the internals behind the fund's own move. Sector Engine → 2026-09-27
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.45 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How QTOP has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.45 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF moved 0.45% on average · correlation 0.19 · higher than 46% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.69 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.83% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.27% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Company snapshot — iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF

QTOP in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Top 30 Index, holding only the thirty largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq's main markets. It is a narrower cut of the Nasdaq-100 rather than a full copy of all hundred names, so its return leans on a small group of mega-cap technology and internet businesses. The fund is described as non-diversified, meaning it can concentrate more weight in fewer holdings than a broad index fund would.
Where it sits in the stack
QTOP carries no seat in our index, so it sits in the sleeve the diary calls the Nasdaq cuts, a set of funds that split the Nasdaq-100 into different slices of concentration. Alongside equal-weight, ex-tech and tech-only versions, it lets the diary see whether a move in the Nasdaq-100 is led by its very largest names or spread across the whole index.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group for QTOP is the other Nasdaq cuts it tracks together: the top-twenty US fund TOPT, the ex-tech fund QQXT, the equal-weight fund QQQE and the tech-only fund QTEC, with the full Nasdaq-100 fund QQQ as the common benchmark. The market's usual comparison for broad Nasdaq-100 exposure is Invesco's QQQ.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
QTOP holds no seat in our index and no Closelooknet score; the diary follows it instead through the Weekly Signal, the Heresy column and the Midday 10, where it appears repeatedly as part of the Nasdaq cuts comparison. Those pieces use its returns against QQXT, QQQE and QTEC to show how concentrated a Nasdaq-100 move has become.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether QTOP moves in line with or apart from QQXT, since a widening gap between the top thirty and the rest of the Nasdaq-100 signals how narrow the index's leadership has become.

iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF (QTOP) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.31%, quarterly · last 0.0280 USD on 2026-09-15

Dividends and capital return

What QTOP pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.12 USD per share · a 0.31% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +3.4% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.12 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0280 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2024: 0.0280 USD (partial) · 2025: 0.12 USD · 2026: 0.0920 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-12-17

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF (QTOP)?

iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading as QTOP on the US exchange and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelooknet tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

How does Closelooknet use QTOP?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelooknet covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does QTOP trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +5.9% vs the 50-day and +13.5% vs the 200-day average, 0.4% below the 52-week high and +37.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does the Closelooknet dispersion engine say about QTOP?

Broad advance - breadth is rising with price. (confirming up, last 21 sessions). Over 21 sessions the fund moved +7.3% while the median holding moved +1.9%; 8 of 31 holdings beat the fund and 20 rose. Against the S&P 500 fund it is +6.7pp over the same window. The top ten holdings carry 61.0% of the weight (effective N 19.3). As of 2026-09-25, computed from the full constituent roster — the full dispersion read carries the series; a descriptive reading from Closelooknet's research diary, not advice.

How does iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF had a beta of 0.45 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 46% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.83% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF?

iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF appears in 5 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Midday 10: SOXX breaks its floor on FOMC day — the sell-off spares only the testers (2026-07-29); Daily Pulse: Semiconductors — Verdict Day: The Market Opens Below Every Line It Drew This Week (2026-07-17); Daily Pulse: One Core, Three Countries: The Global ETF Book Rebuilt (2026-07-11). What Closelooknet said most recently: The Nasdaq-100 WITHOUT its technology (QQXT) is the week's best fund on the board at +3.4% — while the Nasdaq's top 30 (QTOP, −7.8%) and its tech sleeve (QTEC, −6.6%) are the two worst, QQQ itself −5.8% and the Mag-7 basket −5.3%. (Midday 10, 2026-07-29). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

Does Closelooknet hold iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF?

Yes — Global ETFs: 600.79 shares · average entry $29.25, +34.8% unrealised. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

What does iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF do?

iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Top 30 Index, holding only the thirty largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq's main markets. It is a narrower cut of the Nasdaq-100 rather than a full copy of all hundred names, so its return leans on a small group of mega-cap technology and internet businesses. The fund is described as non-diversified, meaning it can concentrate more weight in fewer holdings than a broad index fund would. Closelooknet's peer group for QTOP is the other Nasdaq cuts it tracks together: the top-twenty US fund TOPT, the ex-tech fund QQXT, the equal-weight fund QQQE and the tech-only fund QTEC, with the full Nasdaq-100 fund QQQ as the common benchmark. The market's usual comparison for broad Nasdaq-100 exposure is Invesco's QQQ.

Where does iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF sit in the AI build-out?

QTOP carries no seat in our index, so it sits in the sleeve the diary calls the Nasdaq cuts, a set of funds that split the Nasdaq-100 into different slices of concentration. Alongside equal-weight, ex-tech and tech-only versions, it lets the diary see whether a move in the Nasdaq-100 is led by its very largest names or spread across the whole index. QTOP holds no seat in our index and no Closelooknet score; the diary follows it instead through the Weekly Signal, the Heresy column and the Midday 10, where it appears repeatedly as part of the Nasdaq cuts comparison. Those pieces use its returns against QQXT, QQQE and QTEC to show how concentrated a Nasdaq-100 move has become.

Does iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF pay a dividend?

iShares Nasdaq Top 30 Stocks ETF has paid 0.12 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.31% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0280 USD on 2026-09-15. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for QTOP, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelooknet names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.